Assessing Grammar
The Languages of LARSP
Paul Fletcher editor David Crystal editor Martin J Ball editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Channel View Publications Ltd
Published:8th Mar '12
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This collection is a resource book for those working with language disordered clients in a range of languages. It collects together versions of the well-known Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure (LARSP) prepared for different languages. Starting with the original version for English, the book then presents versions in more than a dozen other languages. Some of these are likely to be encountered as home languages of clients by speech-language therapists and pathologists working in the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia and New Zealand. Others are included because they are major languages found where speech-language pathology services are provided, but where no grammatical profile already exists.
This new book brings together an amazing variety of approaches to LARSP including an elegant description of the origin and evolution of LARSP, an update on research on English language applications of LARSP, an evaluation of a computerized version, and reports on adaptations of LARSP to 13 different languages. The publication of LARSP applications across multiple languages expands opportunities for clinical applications as well as clinical research associated with LARSP. The book will serve as a resource for researchers (or students) seeking to identify gaps in research suitable for future attention.
-- Nina Simmons-Mackie, Southeastern Louisiana University, USAThis volume is so welcome - the frustration of this major tool being out of print for some years may now be over. Hooray!
-- Linda Hand, University of Auckland, New ZealandThis volume achieves its goals of being both a source book for clinicians working in various languages and introducing new adaptations of LARSP.
-- Leah R. Paltiel-Gedalyovich, Hedim Institutes of Audiology, Ltd * LINGUIST List, Vol-24-2071. Wed May 15 20ISBN: 9781847696380
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
Weight: 629g
336 pages